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Project Description

Fit out of approximately 35,000 square feet of offices over ground and two upper floors to Cat B standard. A new restaurant, gym, meeting rooms and support areas were installed on the ground floor. Floors one and two consisted of open plan and cellular offices and support areas. Technical installations included M&E services, security and access control systems and IT and data wiring.

Responsible business

Planet

The team was able to achieve a recycling rate of 83% and achieved additional points through the reuse of waste on-site. This was 10% over the clients’ target. Along with Overbury’s sign up and good report from the Considerate Constructors Scheme, its efficient environmental management of the fit-out added marks to the accreditation targets. RWE npower renewables achieved the first ever Ska Gold rating .

Profit

The project team not only monitored all energy, water use and waste on-site but actively sought to reduce it where possible. For instance, the existing reception space required altering, so, instead of knocking down the block partition wall and building a new one, Overbury carefully took down the wall and reused the blocks to build the new one – simple but effective in saving cost and materials. Suspended ceilings were also taken down and stored for reuse where not required, rather than discarded.